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About whether or not the department would intervene in georgia, about whether or not trump would replace the top of the department, right after that meeting was over, and we see this also in emails and notes released by congressional investigators, that the number two official in the department immediately reached out to that u.s. attorney, bj pak, and said call me, it was 10:30 sunday night. pak said it was made clear to him that the president was so upset about georgia, he was not going to sto...

Georgia, at the time. he, in just two days from there, will be calling raffensperger and saying i just need those 1,100 votes. and he was totally apoplectic that his u.s. attorney wouldnt go along with the lie. so even though donoghue, at justice, knew it was a lie. they called pak up and said the presidents gonna fire you. and pak thought, im gonna resign with dignity. nobody will know about it, then. but now that hes talking to the judiciary committee, they do know exactly why it happened, bec...

So we are getting some new information tonight about just how far the former president was willing to go to overturn the election. former-u.s. attorney in atlanta, bj pak, telling senate investigators he resigned in january because trump was considering firing him. according to "the new york times," trump wanted pak out because he wouldnt push bogus claims of election fraud in georgia. joining me, now, cnn political commentator, charlie dent. he is a former-republican congressman and former-depu...

> joining me now, john harwood, john avlon, gentlemen, good evening. john, what can you tell us about the testimony of former federal prosecutor bj pak? >> this is part of a series of inte interviews the committee is doing as democrats on capitol hill are trying to gather what they can in addition to what the select committee is doing about january 6 and what they found was that this trump-appointed u.s. attorney was told by justice department officials he would be fired unless he affirmed tru...

>> yeah. so -- so, thanks for that. you know, i was a u.s. attorney, and i got the sack, eventually. and really, in -- you know, hes not going to try to challenge it. but theoretically, don, you couldnt fire him because you didnt like his race and these are -- this is protected speech. you say to him, unless you -- because you wont lie about this, im gonna fire you. i think its a technical-constitutional violation. but it doesnt really matter. he resigned before it could happen. and we know that...

How dare you, traitors! >> while it is unclear who was calling the police traitors, the video was released as evidence in the case against robert geiswine from colorado who has been indicted by a grand jury in d.c. on six counts including using an irritant spray and a baseball bat against u.s. capitol police. i thought they said they werent armed. some republicans have tried to rewrite the history of that day as some sort of tourist visit or a day filled with hugging and kissing and once again t...

Almost a cleaning because, you see, it gets in the lungs. >> remember that? how soon some people forget. tonight, we are also learning more details about the extent of trumps attempted coup. the former-u.s. attorney in atlanta, bj pak, saying that he abruptly quit during trumps move to overturn the election results because he heard trump was going to fire him, anyway. that he apparently believed pak was a so-called never-trumper. a source saying that pak told senate investigators today that he...

Sign their names on the bottom of that letter to georgia in the space that had been left for them to sign. and it looks like, that deputy attorney general rich donahue warned the u.s. attorney in georgia about this plot. this actually rational conceivable plot to overturn the election using fake fraud claims in georgia, backed up by the u.s. justice department and backed up and effectuated by republicans in the legislature of those states who would be willing to go along with it. and now, here w...

While i was trying to teach myself new fishing knots, that u.s. attorney in -- in georgia, bj pak. he was reportedly told about this plot from trump and jeff clark at the justice department. he was told about the plot that they were trying to launch, starting in georgia. as the top justice department official in georgia, u.s. attorney bj pak, a trump appointee, would presumably had to go along with that or get out of the way, right? the plot underway that trump was working on with a senior justi...

Before trump basically can get it together to try to stop them from testifying by asserting some executive privilege claim. donoghue raced in, and testified on friday. rosen testified on saturday, for nearly seven hours. both of those rounds of testimony were behind closed doors. senator richard blumenthal was one of a handful of senators there for all of the testimony. he came out and called it quote, graphic, dramatic, and chilling. he also said, quote, as a former u.s. attorney and state atto...